Adeja Crearer didn’t know who she could be until she scaled the walls she built around herself.
The double River Hawk and associate producer for CNN in Atlanta told the incoming first-year and transfer students at UML’s 2020 Convocation that they are uniquely positioned to do great things because of the obstacles and challenges surrounding them – a whole world of chaos, crisis and COVID-19.
Weekly visits to University Crossing for a quick nasal swab. Teletherapy counseling appointments on Skype. Socially distanced spin classes outside the Campus Recreation Center. Meditation practice on Instagram.
Welcome to a fall semester unlike any other, where the coronavirus pandemic has forced colleges and universities across the country to adapt how they educate and provide services to their students — whether they’re living in residence halls, in off-campus apartments or at home.
There’s no shortage of research on how businesses respond during a time of crisis, be it a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina or a financial meltdown like the Great Recession.
But how businesses respond during a once-in-a-century global pandemic isn’t as well understood.
Two faculty researchers in the Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences will study the cause of heat waves and droughts in the Northeast region of the U.S. and how they interact with each other under a three-year, $478,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
UMass Medical School researchers Gopal Vijayaraghavan, MD, MPH, and Mary Rusckowski, PhD, are among the investigators for 11 projects that have received a total of $8.3 million in capital funding awards from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MSLC). Dr. Vijayaraghavan and Dr. Rusckowski, associate professors of radiology, are collaborating with UMass Lowell and industry partners to advance breast cancer imaging technology with Women’s Health Capital Call grants.
The first column of structural steel at the medical building under construction on the UMass Medical School campus was placed last week and continuing progress is expected to be rapid.
On Sunday, Sept. 13, the quad on the UMass Medical School campus will be unusually quiet. Instead of thousands gathering in person to walk or run in support of cancer research, care and clinical trials at UMMS, supporters will be participating virtually in the 22nd annual UMass Cancer Walk and Run.
The University of Massachusetts continued its climb into the ranks of the top colleges and universities in the country in the 2021 Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings released on Wednesday. UMass is now ranked 60th among all U.S. institutions, after rising five spots over last year’s rankings, and 30th among all U.S. public universities.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst Cranberry Station in East Wareham, Mass., will receive $5.75 million in state support to fund laboratory improvements to its lab facilities.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science announced recently that it has selected Brookhaven National Laboratory to lead one of five National Quantum Information Science Research Centers. Chen Wang, physics, will co-lead one of research sub-thrusts of the Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA) that is focused on characterization of qubits and decoherence.